Links to Filipino-related Research & Resources

Download the Statement on Immigration Reform from Filipino Advocates for Justice (July 2009)

Read the introduction to using the toolkit (pdf) from the API Caucus of BAIRC. Learn about the myths and realities behind the immigration debate. Get the truth behind such statements as Immigrants are taking our jobs; immigrants drive down wages; undocumented people don’t pay taxes; people are undocumented by choice; the immigration debate only affects Latinos; and more. Click to download BAIRC’s Myths & Realities about Immigration.

To view a time line of events that have shaped our immigration laws today, download this except from Walter A. Erving’s essay Immigration History for the Immigration Policy Center (11/2008) beginning with the exclusion of Chinese contract laborers in 1865.

To view a time line of the immigration and legal history of Asian Americans, download the Asian American Legal History & Time line compiled by the Asian Caucus of BAIRC.

Are you looking for statistics and information about immigration, overseas workers, remittance, or rates of deportation?

Visit the Migration Policy Institute and view their publications and fact sheets.

Read their July 2009 report, “New Americans in the Golden State: Immigrants, Latinos and Asians Indispensable to California Economy (pdf) to learn more about the foreign born, Latino and Asian voters, immigration and economic analysis, and more.

Other Selected Publications

(01/07/2010) Read about Filipino history and it’s relationship to contemporary foreign policy in “Past War offers Afghanistan Lessons. And it’s not Vietnam” by CNN.com’s John Blake.

SIPA Health Study

Ating Kalagayan: The Social & Economic Profile of U.S. Filipinos (2009) by Peter Chua.

Enslaved in Suburbia: Inside the World of Trafficked Indentured Servants and the Visa Violators Who Care for Our Old. Two women, two fractured American dreams By Gendy Alimurung. Published in the LA Times: February 19, 2009 (LA Times)

Editorial Responses to Enslaved in Suburbia on March 11, 2009 in the LA Times

NNIRR publication, Guilty by Immigration Status: A Report on U.S. violations of the rights of immigrant families, workers, & communities in 2008 (2009).